Most of the times commercial games look much better than open source games. A large group of skilled professionals working full time for many months with highly refined tools and frameworks - that cannot help but must outshine all attempts of a few partly skilled volunteers in their free time.
And so it is here too. There are indeed some Railway management games out there and since at least 10 years in quite good 3D graphics.
But the soon to be released Railway Empire (to be released on 26th January 2018) by Kalypso Media/Gaming Minds Studio just stuns me by the beautiful graphics.
Need a proof? Look at that gorgeous screenshot of a train in a landscape.
Makes me wonder how meaningful the revival of FreeRails is anymore? On the one hand it's fun to go through the code and improve it and surely the look can be improved dramatically from the look back then even with modest means, but on the other hand professional, commercial products have improved so dramatically from the early 2000s to now. Maybe there was a demand and a reason to clone RailRoad Tycoon in 2000-2005, but I'm not sure there is any reason now anymore.
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